market price

noun

: a price actually given in current market dealings

Examples of market price in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The market price is a weighted average of the prices of the two classes. — Alex Crippen, CNBC, 11 July 2026

Suppliers feed oil into the system through a reverse Dutch auction, which entails offering barrels at a discount to the day’s market price. — Mia Gindis, Fortune, 9 July 2026

The creation-and-redemption process keeps an ETF’s market price close to the value of its underlying holdings, known as its net asset value (NAV). — Debbie Carlson, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 July 2026

Official fuel price schedules show mining companies in a separate pricing category — initially used as an incentive to attract foreign investments in the sector — but the government has started to move those costs closer to market prices. — Ruben Nyanguila, semafor.com, 6 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for market price

• imprecise
• sacrifice
• advice
• allspice
• concise
• device
• entice
• excise
• fordyce
• precise
• suffice
• dice

Legal Definition

market price

noun

1

: the price at which a security is currently selling on the market

2

: market value sense 1